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Hi, I’m Edie Markovich, a 15-year-old member of Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa, a Sophomore at Cal State LA, and a marathon swimmer who is going to swim 25 miles continuously for 15 hours to raise money for Los Angeles area food banks. Will you please support this important cause and donate food or money? Edie Markovich, a 15-year-old marathon swimmer, invites Burbank and the greater Los Angeles community to help her raise funds and collect food items for those in desperate need. Edie is doing her part to help her community and says, “Food is a basic human right, [...]

“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room.” – President Merkin Muffley Rotten Tomatoes score: 98% Tomatometer, 94% Audience Score! IMDB rating: 8.4! And so arrives our fifth edition of this repertory film screening series. Each month, Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa Presents… hosts a movie screening and you and a friend are invited! Plus, we will be raffling off a gift card to the GrubHub.com meal delivery service! For March, we will visit the 1964 dark comedy and cult classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, which was included [...]

“There cannot be peace without first, a great suffering. The greater the suffering, the greater the peace. The end you've always feared is coming. It's coming, and the blood will be on your hands.” -- John Lark, “Apocalyptic Manifesto” February brings us the fourth presentation of this repertory film screening series. Each month, Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa Presents… hosts a movie screening and you are invited! Plus, we will be raffling off a gift card to the GrubHub.com meal delivery service! For February we turn to some high-stakes action and excitement with what I think is one of the [...]

“Walter, you’re wonderful, in a loathsome sort of way.” January brings us the tertiary presentation of this repertory film screening series. Each month, Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa Presents… hosts a movie screening and you are invited! For January we will be injecting some much-needed levity into our lives with this screening of the quintessential fast-talking comedy from 1940 “His Girl Friday.” Directed by Howard Hawks and written by Charles Lederer, the film stars Cary Grant at his sharp-witted best with the glorious, fabulous Rosalind Russell. How I have made it this far in life and have never seen this [...]